Brazilian Carnival

One of the things Brazil is most famous for – next to Soccer and beautiful women – the Carnival. Everybody heard of the Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo or maybe also Salvador, where are the biggest ones. But almost every small city has its own Samba Schools for which the parades at the Carnival is the highlight of the year. Although the most of the brazilian cities are poor they put a lot of their money into the costumes and the show for the Carnival. It’s a kind of proud of every city and so it’s almost like a competition between the cities in a certain area which one has the best Carnival. And of courses also a competition between the different Samba Schools of one town. And the shows and paradess you can see there are amazing. Brazilians really seem to have the Samba in the blood. And so it’s very nice to look at them while they are dancing. Samba music and drumas also get you in the right mood. I went for Carnival in Paranagua, a relatively small town at the South close to Curitiba in February 2004. But although the city was not so big they were already six different Samba Schools, each making a show and parade through the streets for about half an hour. Nice brazilian women with short customes dancing samba in the street, men drumming wild on their big drums. That’s really a must to see. Although it was already a great experience I still wanna see one of the bigger Carnivals, especially the Salvador one is supposed to be amazing.